WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Mark Banovic - Workforce Development Manager
Club members bowled over by Hospitality Ready participants’ skills Migrant Resource Centre Tasmania (MRC Tas) and the THA have collaborated to give Tasmanian migrants the best chance of securing ongoing employment and ensure that they have industry- specific skills. Ten jobseekers from migrant and refugee backgrounds put the skills they have learnt in the THA ‘Hospitality Ready’ course to the test, cooking in a commercial kitchen and serving lunch to members of the Buckingham Bowls Club. The Hospitality Ready program takes participants through accredited and non-accredited training for industry-specific skills, including food preparation, serving skills, hospitality related English language, food safety and hygiene, as well as job search and interview skills.
T he lunch service was the culmination of six weeks training to ensure participants are ready for hospitality roles
The next phase of the training will be a 2-week work experience placement with Tasmanian hospitality venues. THA CEO Steve Old said “programs like Hospitality Ready are so important in getting new Tasmanians engaged in the industry and excited about a career in hospitality, especially at the current time when there is a dire skills shortage across the industry nationwide. This program aims to upskill participants so they have the experience that venue operators are looking for and they’re ready to hit the ground running when they do secure employment. The lunch brings together all of the skills that the participants have learnt over the last six weeks and gives them a taste of working in a real-life, commercial kitchen”.
Hospitality Ready Programmanager Peter Handy briefs the particpants ahead of service
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